Improvement in car-windows



w. L. EVERIT.

CAR-WINDOW.

Patented July 25; 1876.

No.18 0.Z13.

NJETERS, PNDTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTONv D. .C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. Q

' WILLIAM L. EVERIT, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN CAR-WINDOWS.

1 Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 180,213, dated July25, 1876; application filed.

April 6, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM L. EVERIT, of NewHaven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, haveinvented a new Improvement in Car-Windows; and I do hereby declare thefollowing,-when taken in connectionwith the accompanying draw- .in gsand the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, andexact description, and which said drawings constitute part of thisspecification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, an inside of a window; Fig. 2, a vertical section; and in-Fig. 3, a section of the sash and glass enlarged.

This invention relates to an improvement in windows for cars, coaches,and other land carriages, the object being to prevent the rattling ofthe glass or sash, so disagreeable in the usual construction anditconsists, first, in a band ofindia-rnbber or similar material aroundthe edge of the glass, combined with an overlapping strip secured to thesash, so as to press upon the glass; and, secondly, in constructing thesash with a groove on the edge of the bottom rail, combined with acorresponding rib on the window-sill, and upon which the said sash willset when raised, all as more fully hereinafter described.

A A, the stiles of the sash; B, the bottom rail; and C the top rail. Onthe inner edge of these parts is a rabbet, a, a little deeper than thethickness of the glass, and in width sutficient for the support of theglass. ()n

that face of the sash which is rabbeted a strip,

D, is placed to cover the said rabbet, and secured to the sash by screwscl, or otherwise,

. so that the said strip forms, with the sash, a

groove around the inner edge of the sash. I The glass is placed in therabbet before securing the strips D, and around the edge of the glass aband of india-rubber, e, as denoted in solid black, Fig. 3, is placed,and then the,

strip D screwed hard down to press upon the rubber which surrounds theglass. The rubber constitutes a cushion between the wood and glass, sothat by no possibility can the glass rattle in the sash. 1

As a further protection against rattling, the bottom rail of the sash isconstructed with a substantially A-shaped groove, f, and the sill with acorresponding rib, h, so that when the sash is raised from its pocket,and'pressed outward, it will descend and rest upon the rib h, thatfitting closely the groove in the sash, which will firmly hold andprevent the rattling by any transverse movement of the sash.

As a still further protection a spring, a, is placed on the window-jamboutside the sash, near the top, and so as to press the sash inwardagainst the inner side of the groove in the jamb, as seen in Fig. 2.This holds the upper end ofthe sash, and. prevents its rattling; but thespring is not essential to the other points of this invention, becausethe sash may be made to fit so closely at the top as to preventrattling; but the spring is deagainst the opposite side of the samegroove.

I do notwish to be understood as broadly claiming the introduction of anelastic material into the sash around the edge of the glass; neither doI wish to be understood as broadly claiming a strip arranged around andoverlapping the glass at the edge to secure it in place, as such I amaware is not new.

I claim- 1. The herein-described sash, constructed with a rahbet uponits inner edge, combined with an overlapping strip, D, secured to thesash, and, with the said rabbet, forming a groove for the glass, andwith an elastic packing, 6, in the said groove around the edge of theglass, substantially as described.

2. In windows of land carriages a groove, f, in the edge of the lowerrail of the sash, and a correspondingrib on the sill, onto which thesaid groove will-set when the sash is raised, substantially asdescribed.

3. The spring a, arranged between the stile of the sash and the outerside of the groove in the jamb, substantially as and for the purposedescribed.

-WILLIAM L. EVERIT.

Witnesses:

J. H. SHUMWAY, CLARA BROUGHTON.

